AQUARIUS(January 20 - February 18) You'll be angry if those you live with aren't pulling their weight. You can come into money; however, perhaps not under the best circumstances. You can make changes to your living quarters, but not everyone will be pleased with your efforts.

CAPRICORN(December 22 - January 19) Social activities that involve the whole family will be enjoyable. Don't let your emotions interfere with moneymaking deals. Your talent will be recognized.

CANCER(June 21 - July 22) Be careful while traveling. Have a heart-to-heart talk with family and find out what the problems are. If possible, rely on coworkers to back your objectives, and talk to superiors in order to get approval.

LEO(July 23 - August 22) Chances are you could get stuck with a colleague's job unexpectedly. The personal problems you may be having are interfering with your productivity. Put all your energy into moneymaking ventures.

PISCES(February 19 - March 20) You can ask for favors or run your ideas by those who will be able to support your objectives. You will enjoy getting together with friends. You will have to be careful not to fall into traps set by jealous colleagues.

GEMINI(May 21 - June 20) You will be able to borrow money in order to invest. You would be best to work late in order to avoid such disharmony. You will want to take off and have some recreation.

TAURUS(April 20 - May 20) You may feel that someone at work is holding you back. You can make a serious attempt at quitting those bad habits that you've picked up over the years. Promotions will be yours if you have acted professionally in times of crisis.

SAGITTARIUS(November 22 - December 21) If you can't trust someone, question the connection. Your ability to communicate with ease will win the hearts of those you are in touch with today. You can offer your help to others but back off if they appear to be offended by your persistence.

SCORPIO(October 23 - November 21) You should sign up for creative courses. Concentrate on your work. Jealous coworkers may try to sabotage your attempts to get ahead. Take care of the needs or responsibilities of elders.

LIBRA(September 23 - October 22) You will gain new friends if you get involved in environmental issues. Do something special for them. Do not jump to conclusions concerning your romantic partner.

VIRGO(August 23 - September 22) Business trips will be more productive than trying to fight the red tape facing you. Things are looking good for you, so open your eyes and get to it. Changes in your residence may be financially favorable.

ARIES(March 21 - April 19)Abrupt changes in your home may send you for a loop. Include friends and family members in your redecorating plans. Losses are likely if you aren't careful where you leave your valuables.

Basics 101

Basics are, quite simply, the basics of magic. A basic is a building block, a foundation for the building you are about to build. In this case, the building you are building is a life path, it is a way of living your life such that you grow internally, and as a result further yourself in life.

Magic isnt simply about gaining power over another person, or over your situations in life. Yes, it can be used to these ends, but that doesnt mean that that is all there is. Yes, dabbling in magic and the occult is what a lot of people like to do, and usually it ends poorly, possibly stinging the person, and causing them to fear it. There is actually nothing to fear either from magic or the occult, if you treat it with the proper respect.

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The basics that you will see included here are not the same basics that everyone lists, nor are they the same basics that I list. Here I use the basics most commonly given, and while I will give the correspondences the western meanings they normally hold, I will also give an explanation on each of them individually, giving my own personal flair on the topic at hand. Feel free to ask questions as you wish, whether that be here, in chat, or within mail, and if anyone would like to add comments or ways of doing things, please feel free to do so.

Meditation

Meditation is used to bring about a different state of mind within a person, whether that be angry or calm. Yes, I know, I know, meditation is usually used relax a person into a state where they are at peace with their mind. However, a person can be brought to a certain point where they realize that magic isnt just about being calm and within their element. At this point, they come to realize that they are within their element even when angry, if that anger is within a persons full self, if that anger coincidences with the persons true will, then it is within their element.

Meditation is about being brought to a state where one can perform the working they wish to occur. For instance, if one were doing a curse, where all it required was carving and burning a candle, then what they may do is meditate on the person, why they are doing this curse, and what they want to happen. Then, while in an angered state, they will care out the candle as they wish, seeing what will happen to the person within their mind. In another instance a person would meditate to calm their inner self in order to curse someone. They say revenge is best served cold after all.

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Meditation is something that many people find it difficult to achieve. There are actually several ways to meditate. You can do so laying down, standing up, sitting up, in the lotus position, etc. As I have said before, you can do so in any way you so wish to do so, it doesnt matter how or why.

First, sit or lay down in a comfortable position where if you are sitting for any given length of time you will remain comfortable, yet awake. Now, close your eyes and breathe in and out slowly.

As you do so, if your objective is to bring yourself into a calmed state, then do so by feeling each part of your body separately and relaxing all of your muscles while doing so. Start with your feet. Relax the toes, then the foot, the leg, then begin with the other leg. Move through the body. Once you do this, relax your mind. Let your thoughts pitter off until they are nothing, until you are left with a calmed mind.

If your objective is to get angry, you work towards things that make you angry. You can start off in the relaxed state, and slowly, one by one introduce these things, or you can work your anger up from what you already feel.

If you have difficulties slowing down your mind, you can do a sort of chaotic meditation, where you follow your thoughts until they come to a point where you stop at.

However you choose to meditate doesnt matter, nor does how long you choose to meditate. You will know when to stop when you reach your stopping point.

Visualization

Visualization is the act of giving rise to our imagination. It sounds very strange to put it to terms like that, however, I will explain. When we visualize, we allow our imagination to take over, showing us the image, the picture that we wish to see. Yes, youll say thats all well and good, but imagination is not real. Wrong, imagination is as real or you and I, imagination created the civilization around us, and it created the gods as we see them today (as opposed to how they actually are).

When you work with visuals, you place images in your mind that you want to see occur, or you place images in your mind to bring you to a certain place or state of being. For instance, you visualize a goal you want to reach, like winning that brand new car or an award; you visualize when angry your happy place; and you can visualize different scenery to relax the self during meditation.

Visualization is simply about seeing things within your own mind using you imagination. In meditation, this can go further steps by bringing in spirit guides and higher selves, who yes, are indeed really there, however that is something to discuss at another time. A visualization is as real and helpful to you as you make it.

An easy way for practicing visualization is to take an apple (or other object), sit in front of you, study the apple for a few minutes, then close your eyes and put yourself into a meditative state. Within this state, recall all the details of the apple that you can, both 2-D and 3-D, until you reach a point where you cannot recall anymore. Open your eyes and compare the visual image of the apple with its true image. This will allow you to discover how lifelike your visuals are/can be.

If you have issues with this, never fear, some people are simply less visually inclined than others. You can either practice until you come to a point where such visualizations become easy for you, or you can abandon it to other procedures.

Centering:

Centering is bringing oneself to your center. Technically speaking, what I described in the first practice of feeling your energy is centering. The reason behind this, is that for me, many of the parts of magic are inseparable. Your center or core is what is you at the basis of you, it is what you have left when you throw off superficiality and all the rest. It is your being.

To center, sit down and meditate. Feel the core of yourself, it is like a central column of pure self, whether it be like fire or ice for you, whatever it is, is at your center of your body. Feel it, and spread this core throughout your body, until every inch of you is one whole of yourself.

Grounding:

Grounding is used to basically neutralize the energy of you. Through our lives, we tend to pick up all kinds of shit that isnt good for us. Through talking to different people (who are dealing with their own negative problems), being in places that tend to make people depressed, sad, or upset (hospitals, police stations, libraries, department stores, etc), or anything else really, we pick up the negative energies, often without realizing that we are doing so. We need to get rid of these negative energies every so often, by breaking down, running, or doing some activity that allows us to relax and put our stress away from ourselves. Working with the exercises below is just another way to do so. The second one works better for me because Ive never been one to go with the easy route.

Sit down and meditate. When you are to a calm state, visualize roots growing out of your root chakra or out of your feet. As the roots grow, grow not only down, but spread out as well. Feel the energy of the earth, reach your roots towards the core of the earth. As you touch it, sink your roots into it. Through your roots, push the negative inside of you towards the ground, towards the center, with an intention of it changing to the energies of the earth. After doing this, use your roots like a tree does, and pull some of the neutral energy of the earth into yourself. Feel it filling you up, then when you are full stop pulling the energy into you. Pull your roots out of the ground slowly, visualizing each root coming back the way it came. Then come out of this state.
Sit down and meditate. See the darkness around you, as you sit there, visualize a door before you. Reach for the doorway and open the door. As you go through the door way, look around to find yourself within a scenery where you find a tree (the scenery doesnt matter but the easiest is a forest). This tree will be different from any tree youve seen in some way, it calls to you against any other trees or scenery within your visualization. Go to this tree and ask to sit under its branches. If the tree gives permission, sit and lean your back against it. Ask if this tree will help you along your journey to become a more balanced individual by helping to rid you of negative energy. If the tree responds yes, then relax into the bark and work with what the tree does.

If the tree doesnt give permission to sit under it, ask if it will help you out in general. If not, ask why and find out why. If it has some issue with you or something to ask of you in return for its help, then fix the issue and/or ensure you do what has been asked of you. No reason to get a helpful tree spirit upset over broken deals.

Energy Flow and Control:

Within energy flow and control I include basic lessons on it that you should try out when you get a chance to, shielding and circle casting, as well as my take on grounding and centering. The reason behind my order is simply this, it makes no sense to me to expect a person to use their energy if they do not know how to sense it and work with it.

Energy flow and control entails working with your own energy to cause something to occur; this is the basis of all magic workings, whether they be intentional or unintentional. At all times, in all moments, you are working with your own energy to cause a reaction in the world around you. Oftentimes this goes unnoticed until you bring yourself to a state of awareness about your being.

The importance of the energy flow portion is that you put the right amount of energy into something, whether it be something of small influence or large, whereas the control allows you to cause the result you desire, and not let the working go willy-nilly.

Practice some of the following to get into the rhythm of energy flow and control, or just as general practice to keep from getting rusty. Dont worry if you dont get it in the first try. Keep trying or change it so you can do it better your way.

This practice is to feel your own energy:

Sit down and meditate (to calm yourself and focus). When you reach the state where you are at peace within yourself, sense your heartbeat first. Focus on the energy around your heart, focus on the being of yourself. Follow the bloods flow through the body, feel how everything emanates outwards from your heart, feel the incorruptible part of yourself, the whole part of yourself, occupying your body. Move your hand slowly, and feel how you follow along with the body, as if there are two yous occupying one space. Stay in this state as long as you desire, however when you are done, bring yourself out of the meditation slowly, and when you open your eyes, slowly move your body rather than jumping right up. (The reason behind this is because a few times Ive nearly fallen over after meditating.)

This practice is to begin working with your energy. It is called a psi ball.

Sit down and meditate. Reach the state described above where you sense your own energy. Once you have, place your hands slightly together, in a cupped form around each other. Visualize a ball forming between your hands, this ball can be of any color you so choose. You may feel a sensation on your hands, or you may not. It really depends on the individual. After this ball is created, roll it back and forth between your hands, keeping the visual of it being a ball within your mind. Once you are grounded in this, toss the ball at the wall, see it bouncing off and back into your hands. It may or may not disappear when you bounce it off the wall. Work on that for a bit. After a time, do different things with the ball. Build tentacles or spikes on the ball and have it stick to the wall, have it bounce on the wall without you moving your hands. This is practice so nothing is right or wrong.

You can go further than these, building ropes, castles, pictures, etc. Anything can be made of energy, but remember that doesnt make it physical.

This practice is to feel the energy of others, the particular one in this example is the earth, however this can be done with anything and anyone.

Sit down and meditate. As you bring yourself to a state of calm, sense your own energy as in the practice above. Then, move out from yourself. Sense the earth below you, first with just the dirt, and the energy in it, then in the plants and trees. Move on to the center of the earth, sensing the energy that all of our world contains. Feel the differences and the similarities between your energy and the energy of the earth. When you are done with this, back off from the earths energy slowly, and return to yourself, then to your unmeditating self.

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